The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-24
BRlJTIJs
Proves That He Should Have
Been u Clergyman,

Proves That He Should Have
Been u Clergyman,
By writing An Exceedingly Interest.
Ing and Logical Sermon.
"Whcn I consider thy heavens, the
work OF thy fingers, the moon and the
stars which thou hast ordained, what ID
man, that thou art mindful Of him, and
the son Of man that thou visitest him.
Such is the language Of the Sd and 4th
verses of the 9Th Psalm. For thought
and comparison allow me to put along
side OF this text, sentence from the
gifted infidel, Robert Ingersoll "Life ID
a narrow vale between the cold and bar.
rem peaks OF two eternities. We strive
in vain to look beyond. We cry aloud
and the only answer is the echo Of oui
wailing cry"
The first thought that arrests our at
tention in the language of this text, ID
the physical grandeur Of the comparison
on the one side, and man on the other
The writer, although expressing himself
in this curt language, doubtless compre'
hended the whole vast fabric of Gods
physical universe. In fact we can draw
no other legitimate conclusion from the
expressions of the inspired writer's. AL.
though the writings Of the different
books Of the Bible reach over period
of more than sixteen hundred years.
much of that time the surrounding ma
tions were learned in the arts and
sciences, yet without the least concep.
ton of the true theory Of the great ply
sical universe by which they were sur
rounded. The Greeks and Romans
maintained that the earth was the great
center of all one vast fiat surface, and
that they were in the center. The
divine writer's, while not attempting to
teach astronomy, yet in their references
to the physical universe, in demonstrat'
ing Gods power and majesty, or in com
parsons like our text, enunciated ply
steal truths for which the world hai
given them no credit; although it haa
required more than three thousand
years, with all the inventions of man in
his scientific research, to learn the les
son that those Bible writers told the
truth. When Job in speaking in dem
onstration OF Gods omnipotent power
said, "Hs spread the armament over the
empty north and hanged the earth or
nothing" the world waited for more
than three thousand years for Sir Isaat
Newton to tell them it was true.
Looking at man through the light (ol
rather darkness) of infdelity, as cor
poreal sentient being, whose existence
commences at the cradle and ends for
ever in the grave, the comparison would
be absurd. But when looking Through
the light Of revelation, which invests
man with an imperishable spiritual ex
istence, we have subject worthy of the
comparison.
"Know thyselr was an inscription
over the entrance to the heather tenn.
pie of Delphi, which injunction 10 a. inn
perative to-day as it was then or at any
other period of the worlds history. LIE,
US look ourselves and our fellowmer
squarely in the face. That we could
see ourselves as others see us, and above
all, - God sees us! We might then
realize the necessity Of much of wha1
seems to some almost superfuous, in
the Old Testament history. We might
shun thousand breakers upon which
many dash and sink to rise no more. Ir
our enlightened age and country some
think there is no need of even the first
commandment in the decalogue; and
yet to-day, how many are bowling down
to idols, Is veritable a. did Israel to the
golden calf. In every station in life
from the millionaire to the squalid rag
picker in the gutter, men worship mann.
mon and mammon alone. It is an OK.
acting deity that accepts no lukewarm
sacrifice, but Gripus dying in the celia,
or garnet among rags and filth, cling
with the last convulsive grasp to hil
idol. The absconding cashier, and Off
cial escaping over the border, bowed
under his load of guilt, still clings to hil
gold. While the millionaire, even in
the Last mortal struggle, in the midst o.
bankrupt corporations and broken indi
viduals all around, maintains his allie
glance to the last. Another form oi
idol worship, as terrible in its conse
quences a. sin can make it, is that o.
Nebuchednezzar, when he stood on
Babylon's broad walls and exclaimed
.'By my might and power have gotten
all this" Ambition to achieve success
ct whatever cost, is corrupting almost
every avenue to public trust or position,
The mercenary voter ID in the market
with his ballot, which should be held
the most sacred of all political privi.
leges, to be bought by the highest bid.
der - sSins in tha shamblas. Ths
public prem, which should be one oi
our greatest moral purifiers, panders to
the lowest vices of the age. Only few
days since, we read in tho two leading
political papers of the West, in one, an
article covertly defending the red-hand.